Good news, Sopranos fans!  Silvio and Paulie won’t be sleeping with the fishes for the final eight episodes of the show (at least not right away, anyway).  Quite a few of the show’s actors had been holding out on signing contracts for the last episodes; now, the last two hold-outs, Steven Van Zandt (Silvio Dante) and Tony Sirico (Paulie Walnuts), have finally signed on for the show’s conclusion.  They had been asking for a whopping $200,000 per episode, but, according to The New York Post, were talked down to $187,000.  I’m glad HBO finally settled with them because it would have been incredibly difficult for David Chase to write out two such important characters. Apparently, the deals came just in time for wardrobe fittings later this week.  Filming for the final eight episodes is set to begin next week.